Product Details
PURDEY
A 12-BORE BAR-IN-WOOD TOPLEVER HAMMERGUN, serial no. 9020,
30in. Whitworth-steel nitro reproved chopperlump barrels, rib engraved 'J. PURDEY & SONS. AUDLEY HOUSE. SOUTH AUDLEY STREET. LONDON. MADE OF SIR JOSEPH WHITWORTH'S FLUID PRESSED STEEL.', 2 1/2in. chambers, bored approx. true cyl. and 1/2 choke, some pitting, carved percussion fences, rebounding sidelocks with dolphin hammers, fine acanthus scroll engraving, some renewed finish, 14 1/2in. figured stock including buttplate, weight 6lb. 10oz.
Provenance: The makers have kindly confirmed that this gun was completed in 1873 for a C.K. Fenwick
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Estimate £4,000-6,000
S2 - Sold as a Section 2 Firearm under the 1968 Firearms Act